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From: Gerben.Wierda@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Gerben Wierda)
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Subject: Screen dimming and saving
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Date: 5 Jun 91 11:13:59 GMT
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Hi!

	There have been some postings on screen dimming, and most of
them use an ioctl call on /dev/evs0 to set the brightness to 0. But that
doesn't dim the screen completely, and since my machine will be in a
kind of server mode and turned on for most of the time I like to get the
screen COMPLETELY black. Is there a way to do this? Like putting some
black picture on top?

	And since I am posting, Another possibility would be that kind
of zero brightness that is offered know combined with a "block-mover"
screensaver that you see on macintosh, MS-windows and probably also
X-Windows. Has anybody seen that somewhere?

	Thanks in advance.

Gerben

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